Saturday, April 25, 2009

Foxy, P2P Taiwanese Style - 1. Installing

Foxy is Taiwan’s most popular P2P application. Not only is it free, it’s also fast and easy to use. For those of you who love Mandarin music, Foxy is going to give you a whole new way to fill up your hard drive space. And it’s not only music that’s available but also videos, documents, and software.

Since Foxy is only available in the Chinese language. These articles hope to help those who want to use it. Part one of this series is going to show you step-by-step how to install foxy. It will also teach you what you need to do before you can install Mandarin language software on an English install of Windows. Part two is going to deal with how to search and download files. Finally, Part three will introduce some of the more advanced settings that Foxy has.

If you don't have a Chinese version of Windows XP you can still intall Foxy. Microsoft has a great article on how to enable International Language support. Follow the article and add Language support for East Asian Languages (You need your Windows XP CD for this). Also set the language for non-Unicode programs to Chinese (Taiwan). Obviously, if you want to search for Mandarin music, it also helps to have a Chinese input method installed. Optionally, if you don't want to see any strange ????? marks when using Foxy, set your Standards and Formats to Chinese (Taiwan).

Now that your computer is ready for Mandarin language software, download Foxy. Once you fnished downloading, start the installer and follow the steps below.